Sentence examples for no timber from inspiring English sources

"There is no timber as far as 80 or even 150km around Irkutsk," says Sakharov.

These reserves were untouched by the 2009 bushfires, and no timber harvesting is permitted in these reserves.

Most miners work 24-hour shifts without basic safety helmets, boots or goggles in fragile mines with little or no timber supports.

Indians and the early Spanish colonials lived in stone and adobe houses and used the spikes of agave plants to frame roofs because there was no timber.

For the islanders, the consequences were fatal: they left themselves no timber to fuel their fires, create fishing boats or build shelter from.

And just so I'm crystal clear about it, no new road building and no timber sales in the roadless areas of our national forests.

With the timber no longer in place, crews stepped up their dredging, hoping to reach a surface that a probing device indicated is 18 to 20 feet down.

Archaeologists and officials hurried to the site, not only because of the magnitude of the discovery but because construction work could not be interrupted and because the timber, no longer safe in its cocoon of ooze, began deteriorating as soon as it was exposed to air.

Hong Kong is similarly poorly endowed in other natural resources: no commercial timber is produced from its sparse forest cover, and there is no hydroelectric potential from the small and short streams.

He has now announced a new moratorium, under which no new timber contracts will be granted for cutting natural forests anywhere in the Philippines.

Even many of the countries shown as producing no sawn timber have some limited portable sawmilling, often processing coconut.